CLARK UNIVERSITY IN WORCESTER this week unveiled a series of new data profiles suggesting Gateway Cities are being hit with a real estate double-whammy: housing prices that are relatively low […]
Bruce Mohl
Bruce Mohl oversees the production of content and edits reports, along with carrying out his own reporting with a particular focus on transportation, energy, and climate issues.
He previously worked at the Boston Globe, where he spent nearly 30 years in a wide variety of positions covering business and politics. He covered the Massachusetts State House and served as the Globe’s State House bureau chief in the late 1980s. He also reported for the Globe’s Spotlight Team, winning a Loeb award in 1992 for coverage of conflicts of interest in the state’s pension system. He served as the Globe’s political editor in 1994 and went on to cover consumer issues for the newspaper.
Bruce is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Posted inTransportation
Boards give yellow light to Green Line Ext.
TWO STATE TRANSPORTATION BOARDS on Monday gave what might be called a yellow light to the Green Line Extension, essentially allowing a scaled-back version of the project to proceed on […]
Posted inTransportation
T cuts Green Line Ext. costs $622m
THE MBTA REVEALED ON MONDAY that it has pared back the cost of the proposed Green Line Extension by $622 million, but Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack said it’s still unclear […]
Posted inGambling
Wynn says construction will start this summer
STEVE WYNN TOLD FINANCIAL ANALYSTS on Thursday that Wynn Resorts will resolve an environmental challenge from Somerville and start building its $2 billion Everett hotel and casino this summer. Wynn […]
Posted inUncategorized
SJC hears arguments on gas pipeline dispute
THE ENERGY DEBATE that is roiling Beacon Hill moved into the Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday as the judges try to decide whether the Baker administration has the legal authority […]
Posted inEnvironment
Beaton pushes hydroelectricity and gas
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION made clear on Tuesday that its ideal combo platter for energy has two main dishes – hydroelectricity from Canada and a new natural gas pipeline. Matthew Beaton, […]
Posted inTransportation
Are Green Line trains getting less crowded?
THE MBTA’S OWN DATA indicate passenger traffic on the Green Line is declining, but agency officials say they don’t believe the numbers. Jeffrey Gonneville, the T’s chief operating officer, told […]
Posted inTransportation
Cost of all-night bus service put at $5.8m
THE MBTA ESTIMATED on Monday that a proposal for all-night bus service in metropolitan Boston was three to four times more expensive than the $1 to $1.4 million estimated by […]
Posted inGambling
Wynn land case defendants found not guilty
A FEDERAL JURY took less than a day to return not guilty verdicts for three men accused of concealing a convicted felon’s ownership stake in a 35-acre parcel of Everett […]
Posted inGambling
Brockton casino rejected on 4-1 vote
THE MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION on Thursday adopted a cautious approach on gambling in southeastern Massachusetts, voting 4-1 to reject a casino license application for the struggling Gateway City of Brockton […]
Posted inThe Back Story
Hunting the source of leaks
Ralph Gants, the chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, asked the attorney general’s office, the State Ethics Commission, and the US Justice Department on Nov. 9 to investigate whether […]
Posted inGambling
Attorney says he briefed Wynn lawyer on Lightbody
THE THREE DEFENDANTS in the Wynn Resorts land fraud trial rested their case on Wednesday after calling just one witness and playing an audio tape of the grand jury testimony […]
Posted inGambling
Commission crunches casino numbers
A CONSULTING FIRM working for the Massachusetts Gaming Commission estimated on Tuesday that the state would net less tax revenue overall if the commission approves a commercial casino in Brockton […]
Posted inGambling
Charlie (bleeping) Lightbody
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS are alleging in US District Court in Boston that some of the owners of a piece of land in Everett defrauded Wynn Resorts by concealing the involvement of […]
Posted inGambling
What did Wynn Resorts know and when did it know it?
THE QUESTION OF WHEN WYNN RESORTS learned of convicted felon Charles Lightbody’s involvement in the casino company’s Everett land deal became harder to answer on Wednesday when witnesses in a […]
Posted inTransportation
T parking fee probe expands to 3 stations
AN INTERNAL MBTA DOCUMENT indicates a probe of parking fee losses now extends to more than one station and refers to a terminated employee who had been working for the […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Gambling
Witness: Wynn Resorts was told about Lightbody in 2012
TWO TOP OFFICIALS AT WYNN RESORTS were told in November 2012 that the owners of the Everett land they were seeking to buy included a man with a “checkered past” […]
Posted inGambling
Construction cost of Wynn rooms put at $1 million apiece
A TOP WYNN RESORTS OFFICIAL said on Friday that the construction cost of each room at the proposed Wynn Boston Harbor hotel will be $1 million, which is more than […]
Posted inGambling
Felon involvement in Wynn land deal called problem
THE LEGAL COUNSEL OF WYNN RESORTS pushed back on Friday against the notion that buying land for a casino in Everett from a convicted felon would not pose legal problems […]
Posted inGambling
Wise guys offer their take on Gaming Commission
CHARLES LIGHTBODY AND DARIN BUFALIONO were grumbling in late 2012 about how wise guys are always discriminated against. Lightbody said it was unfair that people like him, a convicted felon, […]
Posted inPolitics
Time starting to run short for legislative bills
WITH THE STATE BUDGET expected to tie up the House the rest of this month, time is starting to run short for other bills to make it through the legislative […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Gambling
Wynn land case opens with lots of expletives
A STREAM OF SWEAR WORDS cascaded around a federal courtroom in Boston on Tuesday as US Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s office opened its case against three men accused of concealing the […]
Posted inHealth Care, Politics
Partners CEO makes his pitch
Photographs by Frank Curran DAVID TORCHIANA, THE CEO OF PARTNERS HEALTHCARE, speaks very softly for a man who is 6-feet-6, weighs north of 200 pounds, and goes by the nickname […]
Posted inTransportation
Tackling the time warp at the T
Photograph by Mark Morelli ON HIS FIRST day on the job last May as the MBTA’s chief procurement officer, Gerard Polcari checked in with Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack and then […]